INQ-110 | Sport, Not Just a Game

Full Title: Sport, Not Just a Game

Topic Description:

This course is designed to equip you with a social scientific understanding of sport. We will examine the history of sport in North America and the role it plays in our lives. Whether by participating in sport, attending sporting events, or watching sports on TV, sport teaches children and adults a culture’s norms and values. We also find in sport many of the same issues we see in society in general, both the good (teamwork, leadership, and cooperation) and the bad (violence, substance abuse, sexism, and racism). We will examine how sport is organized, from youth, high school, college, to professional sport, and the ways sport is connected to a society’s social institutions

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: February 2019